Foreword

The urge to write had been there, probably a flicker somewhere deep inside me. I was thinking of starting a blog and was wondering about what to write, when rummaging through some old papers, I came across my travelogue of Allahabad, Varanasi and Sarnath. I had originally written it to share my experience of these places with my friends, sometime in Oct, 1994. It gave me readymade material for starting a new blog. So here comes “Going places”.

Earlier too I had tried my hand at writing. When I was working, I was given the task of writing the monthly news letter, of our unit. Within a month or two everyone in the unit was eagerly waiting for my news letter on the last working day of the month. It gave me immense pleasure. When I quit my software job, I was thinking up of taking up writing. I came up with my blog “Quiz your brain” ( http://quizyourbrain.blogspot.in/ )which combined both my skills in writing and interest in quizzing. But I could only blog for a few months. Now more than ten years later, I plan to revive it again, soon.

With “Going places”, I intend to write about the different places in my life. I hope it will sustain the interest of readers, and help me go places in my writing.